Abstract:
The superposition operator is a nonlinear operator that arises in a wide range
of mathematical contexts, particularly in functional analysis and operator theory.
It plays a crucial role in several areas including nonlinear functional analysis,
integral equations, differential equations, and harmonic analysis. The study of
this operator has a long history especially in the context of real-valued func
tion domains. In recent years, there has been increasing interest in exploring
its properties within spaces of analytic functions. Much of this research fo
cuses on identifying the various forms of the operator that map one space to
another, as well as analyzing its boundedness, compactness, and continuity an
alytic structures. However, its topological, dynamical, and spectral structures in
these spaces remain less understood. This dissertation aims to address this gap
by thoroughly investigating these aspects of the operator on Fock and harmonic
Fock spaces.
The dissertation is structured into six chapters with each chapter focusing on
specific structural aspects of the operator. The first chapter provides historical
context, introduces the operator, and presents the essential background results
that lay the foundation for the subsequent analysis.
Chapter two presents our findings on the various topological properties of
weighted superposition operator on analytic Fock spaces. More specifically, we
analyze key structures such as boundedness from below, strict singularity, or
der boundedness, compact difference, Fréchet differentiability, Hilbert adjoint,
self-adjointness, closed range, fixed point, and the invariant subspace problem.
Additionally, we characterize the operator’s global homeomorphism property in
terms of its ray invertibility conditions. The results in this chapter effectively
illustrate how the weighted superposition operator serves as a prototypical ex
amplefor highlighting the fundamental differences between linear and nonlinear
operator theories.
The dissertation then delves into Chapter three where the iterated structures
of the operator are studied. We establish that the operator is power bounded if
and only if it is mean ergodic. We further show the Fock spaces do not support
cyclic weighted superposition operators, implying that no orbit of the operator
forms a frame. We also identify conditions under which the operator preserves
frames, tight frames, Riesz bases, and semigroup structures. In particular, the
results show that the operator preserves frames if and only if it is linear.
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Chapter four focuses on the spectral properties of the operator on Fock
spaces. We follow several approaches in nonlinear spectral theory and iden
tify its various spectral sets. The results show that most of the spectral forms
introduced so far coincide and contain singletons for this operator. The classi
cal, asymptotic, and connected eigenvalues, and some numerical ranges of the
operator are also identified. We further prove the operator is both linear and
odd asymptotically with respect to the pointwise multiplication operator on the
spaces.
Expanding the scope of the underlying spaces, Chapter five reexamines the
topological and spectral properties of the superposition operator on Harmonic
Fock spaces Fp
H
. It is proven that these spaces do not support a nontrivial com
pactness structure for the operator, and that a nontrivial order-bounded structure
exists only when the operator acts on F∞
H
. Furthermore, we show every su
perposition operator in these spaces is a closed map and provide an explicit
expression for its range. Unlike in the analytic Fock spaces setting, where no
nontrivial bounded below superposition operator exists, we identify conditions
under which the operator exhibits bounded-below behavior in harmonic Fock
spaces. Additionally, we establish local invertibility conditions that imply global
invertibility and observe that the operator’s spectral sets and numerical ranges
are broader in harmonic Fock spaces compared to Fock spaces.
Finally, Chapter six concludes the dissertation by summarizing the main
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indings in tabular form and discussing potential directions for future research